Beatrice Hubbard

Beatrice Louise Burdick (1884 -1918) At the time her mother's death in 1893, Beatrice was only 9 years old. She and her father Owen moved from Scranton and went to live with Owen's sister Juliet A. M. Reynolds in Carbondale, PA. Owen who was the administrator of his wife's estate appointed Amanda's brother John Warren, who lived in Peckville, PA. as the guardian of Beatrice. He paid for most of Beatrice's living expenses out of her inheritance money since Owen, who used his inheritance money to cover his own living expenses, had little or no income to pay for his daughter's expenses while living with his sister's family. He tried running a butcher shop in Carbondale but that failed after two years. Owen re-married in December of 1897 and essentially abandoned his 13 year old daughter after that. Beatrice left the Reynolds family in the summer of 1903 and on Nov.18, 1903 she (at age 19) and Fred Ellsworth Hubbard (age 24, born in 1879) of Carbondale, PA eloped and were married in Albany, New York. They had their honeymoon in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

When Beatrice turned 21 she requested that her guardian, John Warren, turn in his financial records regarding the account he kept of her inheritance and he paid for her board and other expenses at her Aunt Juliet's home. A dispute over this account was settled in court in June of 1905 and resulted in Beatrice winning a $2100 settlement pf the case. In the summer of 1905 Fred Hubbard was suffering from lung problems (tuberculosis?)and so he and Beatrice moved to Denver, Colorado in hopes that the dry climate there might be better for his health. They started a chicken ranch there but Beatrice was very lonely and homesick so they returned soon thereafter (in 1906?) to Carbondale and they lived in a house on Darte Ave. in Carbondale. Fred opened an automobile business in Carbondale and sold the first cars in that region of PA. Fred died in the spring or summer of 1915 of a lung hemorrhage on his way to a mechanics conference in New York City. Beatrice and her daughters Dorothy and Marian (our mother) stayed in Carbondale a short time where Beatrice attended a beautician's school in 1916. They moved to Scranton and stayed with Fred's sister Maude and her husband Andrew Gramer who was a Podiatrist and hired Beatrice as his assistant. About a year later, In 1917, Beatrice and her young daughters moved to an apartment on Clay Ave. in Scranton. Beatrice died on October 8, 1918 at age 34 in Scranton in the hallway of the overcrowded Mary Keller Hospital during the terrible flu epidemic that swept the the United States and the rest of the world. Her daughter Dorothy had died of the flu four days earlier, on Oct. 4, 1918 at age 11 and was buried immediately. Her other daughter, eight year old Marian, survived this flu epidemic but was left an orphan. Fortunately her father's sister, Mabel Hubbard Williams, who lived in Plains, PA, came to the rescue and took Marian into her home and raised her from that time on. Fred and Beatrice and Dorothy are buried along side Amanda Warren Burdick's large, granite grave marker which is at the edge of the Warren family burial site in the Willow View Cemetery in Clifford, PA. Our family used to visit that gravesite with our mother, Marian, every Memorial Day to make sure the graves were kept mowed and free of weeds. Our mother would leave some flowers on the graves in remembrance of her long lost parents and sister.